Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
By Gary Laitman
Listen, as your friend I feel it is time for us to openly discuss something that’s been bothering me for a while, but it’s a somewhat delicate matter. Please understand I am only bringing this up because I feel that you have been taken advantage of and I do not want you to get hurt any longer. I know this is not what you want to hear, and I promise I am not going to say “I told you so,” but the time has come for you to face facts … he’s just not that into you.
Don’t get me wrong, I totally understand how you fell for him. He promised he was going to be different from all the others, and Lord knows we all wanted that. You’ve been through some tough times in recent years, and it must have felt good to have someone recognize that. He certainly sounded sincere when he spoke and embraced your struggle. It’s not difficult to see why you believed him when he said he wanted nothing more than to stand by your side and help you make a better life together. This makes a lot of sense when you look back on it. But the bottom line is—and you must realize this by now—he was using you. Yes, I’ve said it, he was using you. He did not care and he does not care about you. All along he was using you.
Remember how he railed against the deficit all through the months leading up to the election? You know those tax breaks that he said are going to help bring back jobs and raise our collective incomes? They are going to add $1.5 trillion to the deficit!
Did he tell you that? Did he maybe mention the fact that he and his family are going to receive millions of dollars as a direct result of this new tax law? Maybe it just slipped his mind. Oh, sure, he might have thrown you a few extra bucks in your paycheck, but that’s just like buying your wife a cup a coffee at the local diner while taking your goomah out for a fancy steak dinner.
There’s also the matter of his hotels and country clubs, raking in the dough from people who just want to spend some quality time with him. What a strange coincidence that the fee to join Mar-a-Lago doubled last year. Could he be enriching himself? Not to mention Jared‘s businesses getting half a billion dollars in loans from people with whom he met while in the White House.
Are you starting to see the pattern here? There is no “us” in his “USA.” It is all about him and his family.
I don’t mean to belabor the point, but I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that there were plenty of red flags you chose to ignore. You certainly heard the rumors. We all knew there was something going on with the Russians. No doubt, he had cheated in the past. There was also the constant bragging, not to mention the compulsive lying.
Why were you so willing to overlook this? Did you really think he was going to change his ways for you?
I’m sorry if I sound angry, but this has gone too far, and you deserve better. I don’t care what your other friends say. I’ve heard every excuse in the book including those who justify his behavior by saying he’s a businessman with no government experience.
Really? You and I have been working for more than thirty years: Have you ever seen a successful business run like he and his cronies are running the government? The turnover rate in his administration is worse than a bad year at one of Ivanka’s sweatshops. He hires and fires remarkably unqualified people at an alarming rate, and, quite frankly, the Gambino crime family is more organized than our federal government right now.
I could go on, but I think I’ve made my point. Again, I want you to know that I value your friendship and I’m only saying these things because I want what’s best for you. So please reassess. Take a fresh look. Open your mind and join the movement to resist his agenda. Also, if you’re done with it, would you mind returning the shovel you borrowed last spring? Thanks.
Gary Laitman is an international man of mystery and a proud member of the resistance who has previously written opinion pieces for the Bucks County Courier Times, where this piece previously appeared.
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